· Private foundation
Philos Foundation Inc
TO PROVIDE MULTIPLE LEVELS OF SOCIAL SERVICES SUPPORT AND POSTIVELY IMPACT THE LIVES OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER | $45,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $25,340 |
| CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $22,600 |
| WINDY CITY CARES | $21,000 |
| THRIVE | $20,000 |
| SAMUEL BELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHERI AMORE MEMORIAL INC | $10,000 |
| LITTLE WARRIORS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE FERRER FOUNDATION ONE FOR ONE CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO | $1,325 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DIOCESE OF VENICE INC | $1,036 |
| KIDS TOO | $52 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BFBREAKING FREE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue -79%
- TBTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +33%
- TWThe Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares2× · 2023–2024 · $62k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- L4LIVE 4 LALI INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- PRPUERTO RICO PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To help children fight drug addiction
The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health exists to expand access to quality evidence-based youth mental health support as quickly as possible.
Focus Fairies Mentoring is a community-based nonprofit that empowers and uplifts Black girls and young women of color, ages 7 to 21, on Chicago's West and South sides who have experienced vicarious trauma, violence, and systemic inequities.
To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.
Prevent and avoid abuse in youth
Counseling young girls mental health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Puerto Rico Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BREAKING FREE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds The Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIVE 4 LALI INC ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHERI AMORE MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL BELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FOR ONE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AGAINST CHILD SEX ABUSE DBA KIDS TOO ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Philos Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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